Art Institute of Chicago
Reine de Joie
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901)
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Color lithograph on tan wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This colorful poster publicized French author Victor Joze’s controversial novel Reine de joie (Queen of joy), which follows a young courtesan in Paris who convinces the wealthy Jewish banker Baron de Rosenfeld to compensate her with his money in exchange for her company. The fictional Rosenfeld was loosely based on the real Baron de Rothschild, andJoze played up anti-Semitic stereotypes of the 1890s that characterized Jewish bankers as greedy, dishonest, and unrefined. The book and poster inspired protests by Rosenfeld and his friends, who tore the posters off the walls of Paris's many bookshops.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300041273
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.
The Ship of Fortune
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Getty Museum
De grote Joodse Bruid
Rijksmuseum
De triomf van Mordechai
Rijksmuseum
Second Room of the Apartments at Versailles
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Struggle between Fortune and Poverty
Getty Museum
Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux
Getty Museum
Judgment of Paris
Art Institute of Chicago
Venus Kindling a Fire in the Castle from which the Personifications of Shame, Anxiety, and Resistance Depart
Getty Museum
A Patron Presented to the Virgin and Child
Getty Museum
Simon de Varie Kneeling in Prayer
Getty Museum
The Triumph of Mordecai
Minneapolis Institute of Art